WHEN IMAGINATION IS SEEN BY EDUCATORS

contributions from Kieran Eagan and Rubem Alves

Abstract

This article demonstrates the importance of a re-mythicizing tradition to education, valuing the several types of imagination, as well as their mythical lessons. In the first section we problematize imagination, mainly through Kieran Egan. In the second part, we present Rubem Alves’ Pinóquio, developing some reflections under the perspective of educational imaginariness that we have been previously building. These problems lead us to think about education and the role of the Educator based on the symbolic and mythical lessons of Pinóquio, since they suggest relinquishing and the temptation of suffocating the student’s destiny, as well as waiving the project of ‘fabricating the other’, denying them the always-sought alterity.